After nearly 2 years here it has taken us a VERY long time to find the haunts that we like. The key things on the list are a decent cinema complex, coffee, breakfast, lunch, dinner and weekend activities. Sadly, unlike Sydney, where you could throw your shoe and easily hit a great coffee, meal, activity or view, these fairly simple items are very hard to come by.
With that in mind I thought I might try and save any other poor saps that move to Bristol from wasting good money and taste buds on such things.
Coffee: by far the best place for a coffee is the Baristas Coffee Collective, 29 Victoria Street, Bristol. Near Bristol Bridge. Professionally made, excellent consistency in quality, perfect extraction time and creamy stretched milk. I am salivating thinking about it. Yum! The price is great at only 1.60 for a regular sized latte (they call it small but it is a good “morning” cup size of coffee). The only downside is trying to get a time when they regularly open in the morning. It would seem the owner is a bit lax, but hey, I’m willing to wait, sitting outside his front door, camped out with my pennies in hand!